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Took some photographs just this week in an old quarry, a beautiful day with the sunlight streaming through the trees. Comments welcome, as well as suggestions as to how to avoid blue trees. There is another in my gallery with a smaller aperture and this looks the same.
What is wrong with blue trees? I like anything blue, if it isn't blue then I make blue with a little adjustment of the levels in the blue channel or hue/sat adjustment.
That wall over there looks worth investigating. Perhaps shooting from a point beyond the tree with a longer focal length to really focus on the wall itself.
Blue fringing is a problem of digital camera's/photography worse on some than on others, it is a pain in the butt, I don't know what the answer is though, the only answer I have come across is to upgrade to a newer camera that controls it better. The image is good, but There could be more interesting images to capture in that type of landscape, try looking for unusual positions and photographic oportunities to show everyday objects in a different and unusual way.
....... Comments welcome, as well as suggestions as to how to avoid blue trees.
Do you shoot RAW? If so, the ACR 'Lens' slider can deal with Red/Cyan and Blue/Yellow fringing. Look at the RAW file at 100% so you can see precisely what's happening on the fringes.
After you've reduced it as best you can in ACR - open in PS - then you can do a touch more fine tuning by making small selections then tweaking with channels and hue/saturation.
If you haven't tried RAW yet .... gerron wiv it and give it a go with a few test shots.
Most of the times it will happen to have blue trees when shooting the darker trees against the bright sky.
The only thing that can save things (minimize chromatic aberration) is to use Custom "White Balance" right on the spot prior to shooting such scenes.
For the specific photo you supplied, observe that the photo has a cold tone in general. meaning you have shot in some ready "White Balance" Mode.
I have tried to correct the things in your photo and what I actually did is that I adjusted the "WB" in your photo.
But this could have been done also before shooting if you had used Custom White Balance.
Remember that "Warmer" tones balance "Colder" tones.
Clay - No I don't think there is anything wrong with blue trees, had that been my desired intention. Part of the appeal of this photograph when I took it was the dark tree against the sunlit quarry face, with the light playing around the foreground. I did take many more photographs that day - especially of the rock face, this one just appealed to me.
Tinka - I do hope it is not my camera, I have only been using it for six months - but still have much to learn. I did get some unusual angles that day, all against that brilliant blue sky.
Pol - <red-faced smiley> Still not using RAW - doesn't it take a lot of space. That very fact did enter my head when I saw the blue fringing, having noted the sliders in ACR.
George - Thank you. I have tried what you suggested and mine is now closer to what you posted. After many mistakes, I tend to leave the camera on Auto WB now - there are such a lot of things to think about. The area I was in is so inspiring, I was enjoying being there as well as taking photographs.
Clay - No I don't think there is anything wrong with blue trees, had that been my desired intention. Part of the appeal of this photograph when I took it was the dark tree against the sunlit quarry face, with the light playing around the foreground. I did take many more photographs that day - especially of the rock face, this one just appealed to me.
Tinka - I do hope it is not my camera, I have only been using it for six months - but still have much to learn. I did get some unusual angles that day, all against that brilliant blue sky.
Pol - <red-faced smiley> Still not using RAW - doesn't it take a lot of space. That very fact did enter my head when I saw the blue fringing, having noted the sliders in ACR.
George - Thank you. I have tried what you suggested and mine is now closer to what you posted. After many mistakes, I tend to leave the camera on Auto WB now - there are such a lot of things to think about. The area I was in is so inspiring, I was enjoying being there as well as taking photographs.
Blithe,
Try this to see if it works:
Instead of trying every time to customize the WB prior to a shot of this type, use the ready WB preset in your camera: "Cloudy WB".
It might work as it does work in most of the cases.
If it does work, it will save you from some hassle of customizing the WB (even though you will customize the WB only once every time you shoot outdoors in a specific environment).
Pol - <red-faced smiley> Still not using RAW - doesn't it take a lot of space. That very fact did enter my head when I saw the blue fringing, having noted the sliders in ACR.
LOL ..... there's no need to blush. I delayed going over to RAW for ages too until Stephen gave me a hefty shove one day - then I regretted not having tried it a lot sooner.
I seem to recall you're using CS2. Is that correct? If so and you elect to upgrade to CS3 - you'll find you can open jpgs in the CS3 ACR as well as RAW files. The same applies to Adobe Lightroom - then you can also use the same tools for both RAW and jpegs.
Just take a few shots of anything - a few RAW snapshots of the garden. Open them in ACR and have a look at the options and sliders. I also use auto WB most of the time too.... you can alter the WB from within ACR very easily and efficiently (if necessary)
One more thing - if you upgrade to CS3 there's an option to have a month's free subscription at lynda.com, which is an excellent site for hundreds of PS video tutorials that'll get you going much more quickly with the update.
Yes I use CS2, but not to it's fullest capabilities so feel that I should stick with that for now. Walk before I run so to speak - I'm forever tripping myself up.
(btw I'm perusing the 10-20/4-5.6 lens - all a question of balancing cash )
Yes I use CS2, but not to it's fullest capabilities so feel that I should stick with that for now. Walk before I run so to speak - I'm forever tripping myself up.
(btw I'm perusing the 10-20/4-5.6 lens - all a question of balancing cash )
Fair comment. It's such a massive and powerul proggie and it's also an endless learning curve anyway so I doubt many peeps use it's full potential.
Have a look these video tutorials from Russell Brown. You won't remember everything (I certainly don't) but it'll help to see what some of the tools are for and how they can be used. I think these ones are free too - no need to be subscribed.
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